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STRESS AND HEALTH Flashcards

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what are the effects of stress-related health-risk behaviors?

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  • Smoking
  • Alcoholism
  • Unprotected sex
  • Insufficient exercise
  • Drugs
  • Poor Nutrition
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What are the effects of prolonged stress?

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-Has direct impacts on our immune systems, heart, etc.

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What is behavioral medicine? What is the goal?

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  • Integration of behavioral knowledge with medical knowledge.
  • GOAL = Are toward *life expectancy *Reduce suffering *Quality of life.
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What is the psychological contribution to behavioral medicine?

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Links behavior, cognition, and emotion to physical health.

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What does health psychology contain?

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  • Emotion and personality
  • Attitudes and behaviors
  • Perceptions of situation
  • Reduce and control stress
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What do we know about stress?

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  • Occurs in any circumstance (Real or perceived) that threatens a person well being.
  • Process (mobilization) by which we appreciate and cope with environmental threats and challenges.
  • Can be beneficial in small does, or harmful if intense or prolonged.
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When is stress most common?

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when we…

  • Feel uncertainty
  • Have a lack of control
  • Are concerned other will evaluate or treat us negatively.
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What is the stress response?

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  • Fight or flight
  • Outpouring of epinephrine and norepinephrine from inner adrenal glands.
  • Increasing heart and respiration rates.
  • Mobilizing sugar and fat
  • Dulling pain.
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What are some stressors in daily life?

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  • Rush hour traffic
  • Long lines
  • Job stress
  • Burn-out
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What is an allostatic load?

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The sustained activation of many physiological systems in response to frequent or chronic stressors.

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What are the physical consequences of stress?

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  • Telomeres (DNA pieces) get shorter, preventing cell replication.
  • Stress-prone rats live 600 vs 700 days
  • Chronic stressors –> Shrunken Hippocampus
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How does stress affect the heart?

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  • Elevated blood pressure
  • A clogging of the vessels that nourish the heart muscle
  • Coronary heart disease
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What is a stress TYPE A?

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  • More competitive, hard-driving, Impatient, aggressive, angry.
  • More coronary heart disease.
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What is a stress TYPE B?

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-Easy going, Relaxed.

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How are stress and illness directly related?

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  • Stress can cause some illness (ex. Tension headaches)
  • Stress can exacerbate many illnesses (ex. Majority of illnesses can be exacerbated by stress)
  • Illness can cause stress, which in turn…
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What is a psychophysical illness?

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  • Refers to any stress-related physical illness.

- EX. Hypertension or headaches.

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How does stress affect the immune system?

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When stressed.. energy is mobilized away from the immune system.

  • -> Because stress response has us adapting to overcome a stressful situation NOW.
  • Therefore the immune system is more vulnerable.
18
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How does stress affect AIDS?

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  • Stress accelerates the progression from HIV/AIDS.

- -> Psychosocial programs to improve the course of HIV/AIDS.

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How does stress affect cancer?

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  • Stress does not create cancer cells
  • Avoiding stress and having a hopeful attitude does not reverse advanced cancer..BUT..
  • Stress might impede the immune system’s ability to fight cancer.
  • Stress can affect caregivers and relationships with caregivers.
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How to condition the immune system

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US(Drug) –> UR(Immune Suppression)
CS + US –> UR
CS –> CR

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How to cope with stress?

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  • Problem-focused coping
  • Changing events that cause stress
  • Changing how we react to stress
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What is Emotion-focused coping?

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  • Attending to our own emotional needs

* When we cant change a stressful situation

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Why does perceived control influence stress?

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Losing control –> Outpouring of stress hormones.

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What is the explanatory style?

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  • Optimistic style (instead of pessimistic)
  • More control over stressors
  • Cope better with stressful events
  • Have better moods
  • Have stronger immune systems.
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Why is social support important?

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-Social support predicts survival in healthy and diseased populations.

26
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What are the three main factors for managing stress and health?

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  1. Sense of control
  2. Optimistic explanatory style
  3. Social support
27
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What health benefits are there from aerobic exercise?

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Increase energy
self-conscious
reduces tension, depression, and anxiety
Improves mood and wellbeing

28
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How can you reduce anxiety and tension?

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  • Relaxation
  • Meditation/Mindfulness
  • Biofeedback (Taught to control your nervous system’s sympathetic response.)
29
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What do we know about spirituality and faith communities?

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-Regular religious attendance predicts a reduced risk of dying.

30
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What is negative reinforcement?

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Removing something aversive/bad.

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What is negative reinforcement?

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Removing something aversive/bad.

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